Hôtel de Ville, Loches | ||
Number: | 412 | |
Date: | 1888 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 270 x 165 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 5 | |
Catalogues: | K.384; M.384 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (5) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at right.
The composition is complete.
State 2
With patches of diagonal drypoint shading added to the walls above the passageway at centre, and diagonal and horizontal drypoint lines added to the dark, arched doorway at lower right of the Hôtel de Ville.
The drypoint shading is faint on some impressions.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7
7: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.